STAR TREK: VOYAGER: STATE OF FLUX (TV)
Summary
One in this series of programs about the outer space adventures of the USS Voyager and its commander, Captain Kathryn Janeway, in the twenty-fourth century. Several away teams gather food on a planet's surface when Voyager detects an incoming Kazon ship. Everyone on the surface prepares to beam back to Voyager, but Seska is nowhere to be seen. Chakotay finds her in a nearby cave collecting mushrooms and they get into a firefight with a few Kazon, wherein Chakotay gets injured. They make it back to Voyager and Chakotay recovers. Seska creates a distraction for Neelix so that she can use the mushrooms she gathered to make Chakotay's favorite soup, but he is unhappy when he hears she stole from the food preserves to do so. He punishes those involved, including himself, although Seska notes it was worth it, reminding him of their romantic history together. Voyager picks up a Kazon distress signal and Janeway cautiously moves in to help. An away team is beamed aboard the disabled Kazon vessel, finding the interior flooded with radiation and the Kazon crew members somehow fused into the walls. Only one Kazon is alive and he is beamed to sick bay. Torres discovers a console on the ship that appears to be Federation technology and wonders how it got there. In sick bay, the Doctor discovers that the Kazon's blood cells have somehow been fused with inorganic matter, necessitating a blood transfusion. Tuvok and Chakotay inform Janeway of the Federation console aboard the Kazon vessel and Tuvok suspects that there is a traitor on board Voyager who supplied the Kazon with Federation technology. Janeway, disturbed by this notion, asks Tuvok to investigate. Tuvok immediately suspects Seska of being the traitor but Chakotay denies this. Torres and her engineering staff devise a way to transport the Federation console off the Kazon ship, but cannot do so until the following day. Chakotay pulls Seska from the engineering team and tells her she is under suspicion of being a traitor. She is incensed that these allegations are being leveled at her and leaves. She visits the incapacitated Kazon in sick bay; Kes and the Doctor are still looking for blood donors. While there, Kes asks her about her blood scan since it isn't in the ship's files; Seska responds that she had a childhood disease which renders it impossible for her to donate blood safely. Tuvok and Chakotay find evidence of tampering in Voyager's files. Voyager detects another incoming Kazon vessel and Seska beams over to the disabled ship to try to beam the Federation console off with her own method. However an accident incapacitates her and she is beamed to sick bay. Janeway interrogates Carey, who is also under suspicion of being a traitor. She confines him to quarters when his answers do not prove satisfactory. Voyager is contacted by Culluh, First Maje of the Kazon Nistrim. Janeway explains the situation and offers to beam him aboard so he can visit the Kazon in sick bay. He does so and the Doctor informs him that the Kazon will recover due to blood transfusions from the crew. Culluh asks to take the damaged ship back to the Nistrim, but Janeway won't let him until she gets the Federation console out of it. Culluh considers this an act of war and threatens to call more ships to attack Voyager. While Janeway and the Doctor are discussing their next move, Culluh's aide sticks the unconscious Kazon in the neck with a hidden needle coated in nerve toxin, killing him instantly. Janeway angrily orders Culluh off of her ship and he complies. Kes and the Doctor reveal to Janeway that they have discovered evidence in Seska's blood sample which indicates she is not a Bajoran, but a genetically-altered Cardassian posing as one. Chakotay refuses to believe that Seska could actually be a Cardassian agent. Despite Culluh's threates, Torres and her team manage to beam the Federation console off the Kazon ship safely. Upon scanning it, Torres determines that the device was a failed attempt at creating a Starfleet food replicator, a technology which the Kazon lack. Improper shielding caused the device to malfunction and cause the havoc they witnessed aboard the ship. Further evidence suggests that the materials used to construct the replicator came from Voyager. Chakotay visits the now-conscious Seska in sick bay. She professes her innocence and claims that her blood was altered to appear Cardassian due to receiving a bone marrow transplant from a Cardassian sympathizer to cure her childhood disease. Chakotay begins to doubt her word and wonders if she was using him for information during their days in the Maquis together, but Seska responds that her only interest in Chakotay was romantic. In secret, Chakotay, Tuvok, and Torres monitor Voyager's computer system, hoping to catch the traitor in the act. They witness someone altering computer database records and observe Seska's security code being entered, leading Torres to believe that Carey is the traitor and attempting to frame Seska. Chakotay visits Seska in sick bay again and reveals that he knows Seska is the traitor; she inputted her own security code to make it appear that Carey was framing her. Other crew members enter sick bay and the Doctor reveals that he saw through Seska's story about her childhood disease and that Chakotay was pretending to believe her to draw her out. When asked why she betrayed Voyager, Seska responds that because of Janeway's mistake in not using the Caretaker's array to get them home, they will need allies in the Delta Quadrant. She had hoped to exchange Federation technology for the Kazon Nistrim's protection, something Janeway objects to since it would alter the balance of power in the Delta Quadrant. Seska activates a secret command and beams herself to one of the Kazon vessels. Janeway is unable to retrieve her due to the advance of several more vessels, but vows to get her back someday. Chakotay asks Tuvok about his own gullibility and Tuvok admits that Seska had him fooled as well, which comforts Chakotay somewhat. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: UPN
- DATE: April 10, 1995 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:45:49
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: B:43699
- GENRE: Drama, fantasy/science fiction
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, fantasy/science fiction
- SERIES RUN: UPN - TV series, 1995-2001
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Jeri Taylor … Executive Producer, Created by
- Rick Berman … Executive Producer, Created by
- Michael Piller … Executive Producer, Created by
- Brannon Braga … Producer
- Merri Howard … Producer
- Peter Lauritson … Producer
- Wendy Neuss … Co-Producer
- David Livingston … Supervising Producer
- Robert Scheerer … Director
- Chris Abbott … Writer
- Paul Robert Coyle … Writer
- Gene Roddenberry … Based on "Star Trek" created by
- Dennis McCarthy … Music by
- Jerry Goldsmith … Theme Music by
- Kate Mulgrew … Cast, Captain Kathryn Janeway
- Robert Beltran … Cast, Commander Chakotay
- Roxann Biggs-Dawson (See also: Roxann Dawson) … Cast, Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres
- Jennifer Lien … Cast, Kes
- Robert Duncan McNeil … Cast, Lieutenant Tom Paris
- Ethan Phillips … Cast, Neelix
- Robert Picardo … Cast, The Doctor
- Tim Russ … Cast, Lieutenant Tuvok
- Garrett Wang … Cast, Ensign Harry Kim
- Martha Hackett … Cast, Seska
- Josh Clark … Cast, Lieutenant Carey
- Anthony De Longis … Cast, First Maje Culluh
- Tarik Ergin … Cast, Lieutenant Ayala
- Majel Barrett … Voice, Computer